Major Scarps
Landscape Character Type and Key habitats
- Almost unbroken tracts of Calcareous grassland, scrub and broad leaved woodland including hanger woodlands
Actions for nature
- Protect, manage, extend and link areas of chalk grassland
- Manage broad leaved woodlands and hanger woodlands for species and age diversity and resilience
- Seek opportunities to enlarge and connect woodlands using appropriate species
- Maintain balance of grassland to woodland and transition zones
Nature-friendly actions
- Increase species diversity of semi improved grasslands
- Create wildflower meadows
- Create arable margins and pollinator species corridors
- Maintain winter cover, feed crops or stubbles
- Create buffer strips to chalk grassland areas and woodland edges
- Restore and create dew ponds.
Key sensitivities
- Steep prominent scarp slopes large swathes of open chalk grassland with areas of hangar woodland and scrub